QA Engineer

PDI Software Slovakia

Place of work

Košice

Contract type

full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

The Quality Assurance Engineer is responsible for developing and maintaining the technical and operational integrity of Excentus’ products and services through automation technologies. This individual is accountable for performing quality assurance duties throughout the life of a project/product by evaluating and creating automation solutions for testing information systems products/services to ensure each are meeting company standards involving quality, performance, accuracy and end-user requirements.The candidate is expected to be a self-starter with a high ability to quickly comprehend technical concepts, and willingness to take charge and seek out answers even when given minimal instruction and guidance.

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required, as you will be interfacing with developers, management and clients in a fast-paced, dynamic, rapid-development environment. This includes working with internal and external customers to create, develop, and execute test plans based on the business directive and providing detailed defect analysis reports to these teams.

Responsibilities & Tasks• Design, build, test, and deploy effective test automation solutions• Apply appropriate automation technologies to meet the short- and long-term goals for the company• Automate as much of the testing effort as possible with a minimum set of code/scripts• Maintain/create automation scripts for assigned products/projects• Identify, analyze and report test results• Provide input in developing quality assurance standards

Candidates with education suit the position

Educational Specialization

IT

Language skills

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

Personality requirements and skills

• 3+ or more years’ experience with TestComplete Automated Testing Tools (Web-based testing)• 3+ or more years Quality Assurance experience with manual and automated testing procedures for multi-tiered applications.• Strong understanding of the software development life cycle methodologies (agile)• MS Office suite – Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project• Strong verbal and written communication skills as you will need to communicate effectively to customer teams throughout the development process.• Strong analytical, technical, and detail-oriented skills.• Understanding and application of programming language concepts with experience in developing software for automation testing.• Ability to multitask.• Ability to think outside the box when automating manual test cases and creating the automation infrastructure.• Steadfast focus on digging for software defects, and producing the highest quality deliverables.• Ability to stage data and to understand the hardware and software requirements for configuring test environments.• Ability to concentrate on detail while understanding the big picture.• Ability to contribute in a team environment.• Strong understanding of databases, file structures, system design and analysis• Ability to complete Project Specification reviews/analysis or experience in Project Management as related to the review of business documentation for all assigned QA projects to ensure that requirements have been clearly defined.• Experience with identifying, analyzing, and documenting defects, questionable functions, errors and inconsistencies in software program functions, outputs, online screens, content and security.• Understanding of programming language concepts and/or previous Scripting experience (preferably in Java)• Operating System knowledge: Windows, Linux